A bout of boredom was what led to the hold up of a US convenience store by a man wearing nothing but a hat, local reports have said.
The 24-year old man was arrested by Pennsylvania police over a separate incident, when it emerged that he had committed a further act of indecent exposure.
Carl Wagner was recognised by the authorities after he had exposed himself to two women in the town where he lived.
But while being questioned about his behaviour police realised he had previously been caught on camera entering a convenience store without his clothes.
Carbondale police sergeant Thomas Heller said: “We put two and two together, it was definitely him.”
In the video, the naked man then proceeded to attempt to rob the store.
He demanded cash from the clerk, who refused to hand over any money.
The police were alerted to the scene of the stick-up, before Wagner, who was shown in the video sporting heavy tan lines and apparently covering his manhood with his hand, ran from the store empty-handed.
Police said that Wagner had admitted to the robbery and also charged him with open lewdness and indecent exposure.
When speaking to the court fully clothed, Wagner said his reason for committing the naked hold-up was that he was ‘bored’.
